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 P.o. B08 and mnsta oil. h2 aanoun npant on vari  10 to 15 pat ent of his income while'the amoun paid for is slso tO  15 per ooa. spent en nundries. shelter /riolading rent Nearly 4 per cent is As rewmrds the intoroe per head of the villagers it is vory difficult to find out exsetly the mount which sn average villager gdd. But there is reason to. blare that an aversgo viLlager'8 intoroe does not exe Rs. 16 per head per annam. TI amount anti. tent to maintab the prevailing low standard of life of tho villsgerf is ,bout Es. S4 while the average approximate earning is about Es. 15 to Rs, 16. Ths inoome is not sufiioiont for the mainten&n of mere physical efficby. I tried to see how far Dr. Engel's proposition8 regarding exlmnditure are applicable in the case of tho radl parts of Ohopur. In this oonneetion I found that his t propost* tion,---the greater the income, tho smaller the peroent* are of outlay for subbtence is approximately true. The percentage of outlay for clothing i8 approximately the same whatever the income. "This is Engel's second proposition. I found that this is not strictly applicable, The amount spent by the villagers on 01othing and not the percentage of outlay is practically the ssmb whatever the income. " The third proposition of Engel that the percentage for rent and for fuel the same whatever the and lighting income, is sll. The villagers spend prsctieally or. lighting. They get fuel from the jungle pepave oil st home from kt,'onj seeds for only the villagers in the neighborhood of towns hsve bsgun the use of k6rosine oil. The smount paid aS rent increases with the amount of inesme. The is approximately not applicable at nothing for fuel and they lightin&